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Operation Epic Fury U.S. Aircraft Losses Visualized

www.twz.com/air/operation-epic-fury-u-s-aircraft-losses-visualized
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ICE has been really good at catching wind of these unannounced visits in other cities recently and flying all the captured migrants out beforehand.

But not today. Well done catching them, Congresswoman. We should expect that all of the detention centers are this bad when they aren’t tipped off.
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there really isn't much to the American ideology that refers to itself as "conservatism" beyond rejection of the New Deal reforms of the 1930s and the civil-rights reforms of the 1960s
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One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war
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ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues.

He had just asked to call his wife.

They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw.

Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/ice-shooting-california-victim-wounds.html
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Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”
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Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
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The president is just posting his negotiating position on main. None of this is agreed to, and the fact that this is all he is asking for is a startling admission of U.S. strategic defeat.

He is HOPING Iran will let him get back to a position worse than JCPOA.
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Let’s…uh…maybe cool it on the Taco stuff. Not sure that double-dog daring Trump into war crimes is good
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I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago.

Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.
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Republicans in Congress support this.

It’s that simple
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Camp East Montana in El Paso Texas represents Trump's first effort to stand up a massive immigrant prison to hold people without trial. It's a tent city handily located at the site of a Japanese Internment site from World War Two:

jacl.org/statements/new-ice-detention-center-at-fort-bliss-dishonors-japanese-american-history

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/ice-texas-camp-montana-east.html
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I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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The information we have about the Iran War is incomplete and unreliable and it’s still clearly a debacle. The full story is likely much worse.
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It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.
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And why do we think it's just Russia. Of all the countries in the world, just Russia. Huh.

"The Trump administration has not confirmed whether it will allow countries other than Russia to send oil to Cuba..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/americas/cuba-russia-oil-tanker.html
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This style of argument—the president can defy a federal law, one signed by an earlier president, because the law interferes with the president's power to take care that federal laws are faithfully executed—is nonsense and should be treated as such.
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Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime.

Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.
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Absolutely. Folks will take some pleasure in this, and it’s understandable in a schadenfreude sort of way, but that this execrable person wasn’t terrible enough for Trump is not good news.
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‘Tie the season
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I have been thinking a lot about this article & the "BIDEN'S TOTAL FAILURE IN AFGHANISTAN!" coverage in 2021, & there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of that coverage & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran/NATO/Trump now.
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The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority.

"[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.60.0_3.pdf
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the most corrupt administration in history, every day a Teapot Dome level scandal
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At least 8 million people turned out at more than 3,300 'No Kings' protests across all 50 states Saturday, according to the No Kings Coalition.

Organizers say protests Saturday were the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.
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If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.

That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents.
This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johnsons-institutional-betrayal
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